Luggage carrier for vehicles



Nov. 26, 1929. D. c. ROGERS ,4

LUGGAGE CARRIER FORVEHICLES Filed Oct; 4, 1927 4 Fig.1. 43

DAVID C.ROGER Fig.4. v 1 'QZ'A BB Patented Nov. 26, 1929 UNITE ST DAVID ROGERS, 0F COLUMBUS, OHIO LUGGAGE CARRIER FOR VEHICLES Application filed October 4, 1927. Serial No. 223,892.

This invention relates more particularly to luggage carriers for the running boards of automobiles. Such luggage carriers as are now in common use are secured by nuts or other fastening means at the lower side of the running board at which points they are inconvenient to manipulate and are subject to the accumulation of dust or mud, and the rapid action of rusting water.

The object of m invention is to provide an improved, simplified and compact construction of such devices whereby the fastening means are located at the top of the device where they are easily and quickly accessible and the parts to be manipulated arenot subject to the accumulation of matter adapted to impair their life or interfere with their successful manipulation.

The invention is embodied in the example herein shown and described, the features of novelty being finally claimed.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing the invention applied to the running board of a motor vehicle.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the device, the running board being in section.

Fig. 4c is a detail sectional view, on a larger scale, of the standard. 7

Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line VV Fig. l.

Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a modification.

In the views, and referring more particularly to Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, the character 10 designates the external part of the standard, said part being a tube and having extended horizontally from its lower end a clamping foot 11. The character 12 designates a solid rod fitting in the tubular standard part 10, said rod capable of longitudinal movement therein. The rod 12 has its upper end reduced and threaded as at 13 and its lower end made with a clamping foot 14 eX- tending horizontally from its lower end and adapted, in use, to cooperate with the foot 11 to clamp the running board. The two feet 11 and 14: in practice embrace the upper and lower sides respectively of the running board (designated 15) the lower foot 11 being drawn upward by suflicient pressure of a thumb nut 16 on a washer 17 between the nut and the upper end of the tubular portion 10 to effect the tight clamping of the feet to the running board.

The tubular part 10 of the standard and the rod part 12 fitting therein are made noncircular in cross section (see Fig. 5) so that the rod part cannot turn in the tubular part and the clamping feet thereby kept parallelly opposed and therefore in their most effective clamping position. These clamping feet can be made long enough to permit considerable outward adjustment of the carrier so that packages of unusual size can be secured thereby on the running board. In theconstruction as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the two standards are connected by pivotal connections at.18 with a lazy-tongs or collapsible luggage retaining frame 19 so that the carrier can be lengthened or shortened, within limits, to the desired extent.

In Fig. 6 the construction of the standards is the same as in the other views but the standards may be connected by a frame of one or more rods 20 secured to the standards and slotted for lengthening and shortening such luggage retaining frame, said slotted rods being held together after adjustment upon each other by ordinary bolts passed through the slots with nuts 21'therein pinching the rods together.

The forms of the parts can be changed with-.

out departing from the gist of the invention as claimed. r

What I claim is:

In a luggage carrier for a running board, a luggage confining frame, a pair of tubular posts to which said frame is attached, said posts each being of substantially the full height of said frame and each post having a clamping foot integral therewith to engage the running board, a rod slidable non-rotatably in and confined by each of said tubular osts and each of said rods having a foot integral therewith cooperating with the clamping foot of the tubular post to embrace the running board between them, said rod having its upper end threaded, and a manipulable nut on said threaded end to engage the upper end of the tubular post and adapted to be turned to draw said clamping feet into holding engagement with the running board and close the upper end of the tubular post.

'DAVID C. ROGERS. 

